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Brilliant technologies and brave entrepreneurs : a new narrative for African manufacturing
Naudé, Wim - 2018
In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development. Despite failing to industrialize in the past, there may be a new window of opportunity. This is due to the convergence of what has been called "brilliant" new technologies associated...
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Clean money in a dirty system : relationship networks and land rezoning in Queensland
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - 2015
power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State …
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Migrant networks and job search outcomes : evidence from displaced workers
Colussi, Tommaso - 2015
This paper investigates how immigrants' job search outcomes are affected by the labor market outcomes of workers from the same country of origin they are connected to. Connections are identified based on having worked for the same firm in the past. Using matched employer-employee micro data from...
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Social ties in academia : a friend is a treasure
Colussi, Tommaso - 2015
This paper employs a unique dataset on articles, authors and editors of the top general interest journals in economics to investigate the role of social connections in the publication process. Ties between editors and authors are identified based on their academic histories. Results show that an...
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A note on height and surnames : the role of networks
Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Leeuwen, Bas van - 2013
childhood circumstances and labor market outcomes on the one hand, and heights on the other, when networks are included as … labor market outcomes suggests that, while childhood circumstances affect height largely via social status and networks as …
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The value of connections : evidence from the Italian-American Mafia
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2014
Using declassified Federal Bureau of Narcotics records on 800 US Mafia members active in the 1950s and 1960s, and on their connections within the organized crime network, I estimate network effects on gangsters' economic status. Lacking information on criminal proceeds, I measure economic status...
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The formation of migrant networks
Comola, Margherita; Mendola, Mariapia - 2014
This paper provides the first direct evidence on the determinants of link formation among immigrants in the host society. We use a purposely-designed survey on a representative sample of Sri Lankan immigrants living in Milan to study how migrants form social links among them and the extent to...
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Networks and migrants' intended destination
Bertoli, Simone; Ruyssen, Ilse - 2016
Social networks are known to influence migration decisions, but connections between individuals can hardly be observed …
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Labor market networks and recovery from mass layoffs before, during, and after the Great Recession
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Kutzbach, Mark J.; Neumark, David - 2016
We measure the impact of labor market referral networks defined by residential neighborhoods on re-employment following … mass layoffs. Because networks can only be effective when hiring is occurring, we focus on a measure of the strength of the … strength that try to disentangle the mechanism by which networks operate – either by conveying information to job seekers about …
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Consumption network effects
De Giorgi, Giacomo; Frederiksen, Anders; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2016
In this paper we study the relevance and mechanics of consumption network effects. We use long panel data on the entire Danish population to construct a measure of consumption based on administrative tax records, and define the peer groups in terms of workplace, occupation, education, and age....
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